Technical Architect

Job Description

Job Description

• Schedule: Monday through Friday, 40 hours per week; overtime is not expected
• Work arrangement: Hybrid, with three on-site days per week Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (Will consider remote but on-site preferred)
• Location/site: AP4
• Workforce designation: Onshore
• Travel: None expected
• Relocation: Not available

Technical Architect, Agentic Biomedical Research Platform

About the Role

Client s IR Scientific and Cloud Computing team is seeking a Technical Architect to help bring agentic biomedical research software into Client s AWS environment and explore how it can interoperate with other research tools.

You ll help shape the technical vision and architecture for a platform supporting AI-driven biomedical research across Client s R&D pipeline. Working with research scientists, engineering teams, and business stakeholders, you ll translate scientific needs into scalable, secure, and dependable cloud solutions. This role is suited to a self-starter who can work through ambiguity, take initiatives from concept to production, and communicate complex technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

What You ll Do

• Lead the technical architecture and implementation of an agentic biomedical research platform in Client s AWS environment.
• Facilitate the onboarding of biomedical research software and assess interoperability with other tools and platforms.
• Partner with scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders to understand needs and translate them into technical solutions.
• Design and support cloud and hybrid high-performance computing (HPC) solutions.
• Deploy and manage containerized workloads on Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS, using GitOps-based delivery practices.
• Address architecture needs across networking, security, identity, provisioning, storage, autoscaling, workload placement, and lifecycle operations.
• Implement monitoring and observability for cloud and containerized workloads, including metrics, dashboards, and alerting.
• Apply infrastructure-as-code, scripting, automation, and DevOps practices to support reliable operations and cost management.
• Explain architectural decisions, trade-offs, and technical concepts to a range of stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Master s degree and at least 5 years of relevant experience, or bachelor s degree and at least 7 years of relevant experience.
• Strong understanding of AWS cloud services, with hands-on experience with services such as:
  • Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
  • Elastic Load Balancing, including Application Load Balancers
  • Amazon S3, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon FSx
• Strong knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes, including deploying and managing workloads on EKS and ECS.
• Experience with GitOps-based continuous delivery using Argo CD.
• Experience implementing monitoring and observability for cloud and containerized workloads using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
• Experience architecting cloud and hybrid HPC solutions, including networking, security, identity, provisioning, storage, autoscaling, infrastructure as code, workload placement, cost management, monitoring, and lifecycle operations.
• Strong scripting, automation, and DevOps skills.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across scientific, engineering, and business teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS certification, such as AWS Solutions Architect or AWS DevOps.
• Knowledge of biomedical research.
• Experience with agentic development.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, or another regulated industry.